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In
a recent article by Jonny Evans of CITE World, it would appear that
Apple is starting to dominate the enterprise marketplace. For years,
this was a market long-held by the king of enterprise devices -
BlackBerry. However since the iPhone and it's worldwide acceptance
amongst consumers and since organizations have seen an explosion in
employees bringing their own devices to work and deploying work-based
apps on them it is no shock that it's dominance would make it's way into
the enterprise. The permeation of the Android device... [More]

It is estimated
that by 2017, the global enterprise mobility market will be nearly $174 billion , according to a report by Global
Industry Analysts. New, more powerful mobile devices – namely tablets and
smartphones – and mobile business apps on them are, and will continue to, help
drive this trend. According to
Gartner’s January 2011 worldwide IT spending forecast , global IT spending in enterprise
software and apps has grown to $253 billion in Q4 2010 from $228 billion in Q4
2008, with a low point of $224 billion in Q4 2009. This... [More]

Following
the proposed acquisition of Motorola Mobility by Google a few months back, I
wrote a post that described my
views on the potential impact of this deal on the enterprise market. Seen
by many as Android’s champion in the enterprise, I fully expected to see a
series of Motorola devices coming to market that redefined the market –
combining consumer appeal with IT-friendly features. Fast
forward to today and it is in fact Motorola
Solutions , rather than Motorola Mobility, that has taken up the challenge
with the launch of the... [More]

The idea of ‘ write once, run anywhere ’ has been the
golden panacea that the software industry has been chasing since the mid-1990s
with the arrival of Java. Since then, several standards, companies and
initiatives have come and failed in realizing this ideal. With the rumored launch of a Facebook HTML5 application at
today’s Apple Event , it will be interesting to see what the
future holds for this new standard despite the obvious conflicts of interest for the
handset manufacturer and what some of the challenges the industry need to... [More]

The global
mobile ecosystem has been challenged year-on-year through the introduction of
countless new mobile devices, OSs, applications and services. Recognizing that
organizations need extra support to keep pace with the dynamic mobile industry,
DeviceAnywhere established a peer group on LinkedIn, “ Mobile Application Lifecycle Management Professionals .” Join the
group by following this link: http://linkd.in/n0XnTy . This group
is an outlet to discuss strategies related to mobile application lifecycle
management, or mobile ALM, to... [More]

Market
research firm IDC reports that the mobile worker population passed the one billion mark in 2010 and
estimates that this number will rise to make up more than a third of the
world’s workforce by 2013. As companies look to take advantage of the mobile
opportunity, ranging from cost savings to improvements in productivity, IT
departments are struggling to ensure only approved apps (rather than Angry
Birds ) find their way onto company-owned devices. In response
to this growing IT headache, Verizon Wireless earlier this week announced... [More]

New AT&T Platform Helps Businesses Extend Critical Apps to Devices AT&T
just
announced that it is offering a managed version of its Mobile Enterprise Application
Platform (MEAP), which enables enterprises to offer applications across a range
of devices, including PCs, smartphones and tablets. For
those interested, MEAPs address some of the difficulties of developing mobile
software by managing the diversity of devices, networks and user groups at the
time of deployment and throughout the mobile solution’s lifecycle, providing a... [More]

Despite
wide spread speculation around why Google has chosen to buy
Motorola Mobility , from patent acquisition to simply wanting to shake up the
industry, very few articles have mentioned the desire to strengthen their
proposition and route into the enterprise market. Motorola
Mobility was seen by many as Android’s champion in the enterprise. For over a
year, they have aggressively targeted CIOs and enterprise-grade developers with
“ business
ready ” devices that showcase business necessities such as Exchange-based
integration, VPNs... [More]

Recent ABI Research suggests that the number of enterprise smartphone and tablet app users will reach 830 million by 2016. These numbers include Business-To-Employee (B2E) apps and Business-To-Customers (B2C), branded company apps and reflect the rising role of mobile enterprise in improving work efficiency and fostering better relationships with the customer. However, to facilitate this growth, businesses will have to overcome a number of challenges. A recent survey of mobile experts and IT professionals shows that while nearly all... [More]

The rise of
smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices for business use has been a point
of tension for some organizations in the past, especially within professions
where “desk presence” was traditionally used to measure productivity. However,
according to the latest Mobile Workforce Report by Visage Mobile, this
viewpoint could be outdated, as employees are now thinking about work even
during their personal downtime more than ever, thanks in large part to their
smartphones. Mobile is no longer a nice-to-have but a strategic
asset... [More]

Attending Innovate 2011 in Orlando, Florida between the 5 th and 9 th June, 2011? Interested in learning more about the mobile quality platform used by more than half of the Fortune 100? Then check out below where myself and the rest of the DeviceAnywhere team will be! We’ll be performing live demos of Test Automation with Smart Devices™ at our dedicated booth (Kiosk I) - showcasing our latest integration with Rational Quality Manager 3.0. This established partnership provides our enterprise customers with a one-stop-shop for mobile QA .... [More]

Through our work with Kaiser Permanente, GE Healthcare, McKesson and others, we recognize that smartphones and other smart devices are penetrating medical organizations as a preferred information and resource delivery platform. The use of internally-developed mobile apps to diagnose, treat, transmit data, provide medical decision-support, monitor and provide care to patients can help streamline and increase the efficiency of everyday tasks and effectiveness of medical professional care-giving. Despite this, John-David Lovelock, a Gartner... [More]

A new research forecasts that the enterprise mobility market will reach $1.6 billion in 2014 with enterprises tapping into the mobile platform to extend business services and internal applications, and improve productivity. However, in spite of the growth prospects, businesses are facing challenges around platform integration and mobile fragmentation which hinder the quick adoption of effective mobile enterprise strategies. These challenges bring forward the pressing need of skilled mobile application developers and innovative solutions that... [More]

Brandon Watson, Microsoft’s developer evangelist, recently caused a stir within the industry when he announced that the Windows Phone 7 toolkit had been downloaded 1.5 million times. He also then went on to state they were adding 1200 developers every week. We have also observed a slow but steady increasing testing popularity amongst our customers in recent months, with Windows Phone 7 reaching a 1.3% share of total testing time in our latest DeviceAnywhere Metrics report. Buzz around Windows Phone 7 peaked in February following the... [More]

In 2011 Google will become, or remain depending on whether you believe Canalys or Nielsen , the dominant smartphone operating system. Although noteworthy on its own, the point that really interests me is that this will likely be achieved by growth in the enterprise and not consumer market. As pointed out in a previous post , the popularity of the Blackberry device is gradually receding and opening up space for the iPhone and Android handsets. Jason Perlow of ZDNET points out in a recent column that, in the short term at least, that large,... [More]